Kent Duncan

[Kent Duncan @KentDuncan]

@KaitlynSchiess [Deep sigh…]

[Kent Duncan @KentDuncan]

@JohnErikFraker @martyduren Do you know any specific history on this photo? Time/place/people involved?

[Kent Duncan @KentDuncan]

@danb11 @ToomanyWatts @AlanLCross @dianabutlerbass Churches sometimes “add” 7.65% to a minister’s compensation to make up for the employee portion of FICA on paper, but even that compensation is subject to the 15.3% self-employment tax (so its really no different than any other taxable income for the minister).

[Kent Duncan @KentDuncan]

@danb11 @ToomanyWatts @AlanLCross @dianabutlerbass Clergy at your church are not paying the employee side of payroll tax (7.65%) because—by statute—they’re paying the full 15.3% self employment tax (before paying whatever income taxes may be due).

[Kent Duncan @KentDuncan]

Food for thought...

https://t.co/ohCUDeabQN

[Kent Duncan @KentDuncan]

@CTmagazine #WorkingClassGospel must include an understanding of work as fundamentally good, rest (Sabbath) as essential, vocation as comprehensive (including every honorable job), and “eternal reward” as tangible #eschatologicalcontinuity

[Kent Duncan @KentDuncan]

@CTmagazine Attitudes that dismiss ordinary labor as “less than” or merely stepping stones to white-collar work … or opinions of ordinary laborers as somehow less skilled or less knowledgeable #workingclassgospel

[Kent Duncan @KentDuncan]

@CTmagazine Celebrate the beauty of ordinary labor. Tie it to Adam in the Garden, Oholiab constructing the tabernacle, Jesus promising to eternal reward for even the most ordinary labor offered to Him #workingclassgospel

[Kent Duncan @KentDuncan]

@CTmagazine #WorkingClassGospel —best message—that work was part of God’s gift of a perfect world, remains an essential means of fulfilling our calling, and—done for and offered to the King—promises reward even in the age to come.

[Kent Duncan @KentDuncan]

@CTmagazine The most damaging message—that work is itself a curse, and only something to be endured until relieved by death. #WorkingClassGospel